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[Rick N Bama]

My new avartar is in honor of my Dad would would be 109 years old if he were still living. Sadly he passed from this world on Dec 30, 1980 from a heart attack. Dad was an old time Cotton & Corn Farmer who, along with Mom, raised four kids on a small North Alabama Farm. I guess they did a fairly good job as none of us, as far as I know, have ever been in jail. I'm the youngest of the four at age 65.

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Thanks for looking guys,

Rick

[Dean D.]

A fitting tribute Rick, thanks for sharing.

[AricTheRed]

Is that you in the picture with your pa?

[LUCKYDAWG13]

Is that you in the picture with your pa?


you beat me to it

[Hickory]

My dad was camera shy.
Only one picture of him on his wedding day.
One copy only, and my sister has it now.

[Rick N Bama]

Is that you in the picture with your pa?

No, I should have made that clear in the original post. I think the picture was made sometime in '45 or '46, a year or so before I was born. I can't find a picture anywhere of me with Dad except for one that has my whole family in it.

The horses were a team of half-brother Morgans. Dad sure took pride in those horses & kept them for 20 crops. Animals on our farm had to earn their keep so when they started slowing down Dad traded them in for a team of Mules. He finally gave in to a Tractor along about 1957 or so. Even then he kept the Mules for certain jobs on the farm.

Rick

[MtGun44]

Nice pic. My wife's grandfather dropped dead in the 1960s while plowing behind
borrowed mules in central Mississippi. Lots of folks were really dirt poor in those
days, but they had good kids, raised right. Two of his boys were military pilots,
one in WW2 the other in the postwar Navy.

Lots of good folks were still tilling with horses and mules a lot later than many
would guess.

Bill

[DCP]

Its only the 1st born that gets all the pictures taken.

[xs11jack]

what a fitting tribute! We are told in the bible to honor our father and mother. You have done this a fine way. God's blessing on you and your brothers.
Ole Jack

[BNE]

My Grandfather still plowed with mules into the 60s. I only know this because my parents told him that they would not bring us to visit if Paw was plowing with mules. Something about the "colorful language" used to encourage the mules along!

I miss him. Nice picture.

[Rick N Bama]

The only job I was ever sucessful at doing with the Mules was dragging the fields to bust up dirt clods. While Dad could plow a row straight as an arrow mine looked like a dog's hind leg:)

Rick